Carelessness or Candor?

The "apartheid" slur has a long history.

"I will not allow my commitment to Israel to be questioned by anyone," John Kerry pronounced in a press statement yesterday. Far be it from us to defy an order from the secretary of state. It is clear to us, however, that there is something to which Kerry's commitment is far deeper.

On Friday the secretary spoke to what the Daily Beast's Josh Rogin characterizes as "a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting" of the Trilateral Commission. "The secretary of state said that if...